Vocabulary

• from one day to the next: Suddenly or very quickly, often overnight.
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• end up here: To arrive somewhere unexpectedly or without intending to.
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• out of nowhere: Suddenly and unexpectedly; from an unknown place or source.
• in the hospital: Located inside a hospital receiving medical care.
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• live on: To continue to exist or be remembered.
• essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• constant: Happening frequently or without pause
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• grain: Seeds of plants used for food
• empty: Containing nothing; with no contents
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• confused: To make something unclear or hard to understand
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• void: Empty feeling because nothing interests you
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• person: Man, woman or child
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• accident: Sudden unplanned event causing damage, injury etc.
• spend: To use money to pay for something
• strand: Long part of a rope, someone's hair, etc.
• migrate: To move from one country or place to live or work
• truth: Real facts about something
• sand: Area composed of tiny pieces of rock near an ocean
• impossible: (Child, etc.) very annoying
• museum: Building to display art/science/history objects
• revisit: To talk or think about something again
• iris: Round colored part of an eye